The Footprints of God

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The Footprints of God is a thriller novel written by Greg Iles. It was published in hardcover in 2003 by Scribner, then in March 2004 by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. It made the New York Times bestseller list.

The story revolves around a supercomputer being built in a secret government lab. When one of the project's scientists is murdered, David Tennant discovers who the murderer is, and tries to piece together the truth behind the project while he and companion Rachel Weiss are pursued around the globe.

David Tennant the main protagonist of the novel, suffers from a series of regression episodes, which are considered as seizures by his doctor, which he says are caused by overexposure to a super-MRI scan. The story unfolds around a plot to create a merger of the human mind and the machine, in order to produce an unrivalled super computing machine.

He is one of the 'ETHICAL' caretakers involved in the project trinity.

The book raises the ever mystical question of the reason behind mankind's existence on this planet.